Not pretty
NFL preseason games are a crime against humanity. There’s some good soccer this weekend. And I guess that’s about it for sports.
Take his passport. And tell him not to leave town. Because this motherfucker needs to face some serious criminal charges.
Well it’s about time. Nevermind. They won’t actually do anything. A better solution would be to tell shop owners they can shoot looters on sight.
Stop this madness.
This person didn’t deserve to die. Because he never should have been there in the first place. (Note: I should not have assumed this person’s sex, gender, gender identity, or preferred pronouns. If I have offended any IRS agents, I humb…oh never mind.)
::exaggerated jacking motion:: Fuck these people.
::exaggerated jacking motion:: Fuck these people.
Scumbag
::exaggerated jacking motion:: Fuck that guy.
This seems kind of sketchy. I’m no fan of the government prying into private business, but this probably warrants a looksie.
Yeah, no shit. But good luck making changes that will actually work. Unless you’re willing to fire ten thousand people..Which would be awesome.
I think this video might have been lip synced. Oh well. It’s awesome. And so is this one. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Friday and weekend, dear friends.
HISD’s Mike Miles says district’s test scores call for dramatic changes
dramatically more money
Why is it that after years of throwing more money at this problem and results still heading in the negative direction that these people are not tar & feathered for saying the issue is that more money needs to be pissed away on a totally failed system?
Because telling the truth, that the best indicator of academic achievement is parental engagement, is not useful for their agenda.
I just recently had this discussion with a mental case (proggie). When I pointed out that misdiagnosing a problem, by evil design or simply because of stupidity, means odds of solving it is near zero (sometimes you can just get lucky), left me wondering about intent, she got furious and accused me of emotional assault/abuse. But she had no argument to make back. Idiots like this know they will never fix whatever trope they are peddling, and it seems they don’t care, because it is always about grift, power, and being able to have the feels.
This guy just got hired, so this isn’t some long term loser saying what needs to be said in order to keep his job. He’s already put in place a system that is a lot more merit-based and I think he’s gonna continue to get the support of the parents and be reviled by the likes of Randi Weingarten.
I hope he gets free rein for a couple years, because I think his plans have merit and are worth evaluation.
Because we’re all too nice to tar and feather anymore, apparently. I thought we would have pushed past the breaking point in several areas years ago.
Honestly, I think a lot of those in charge thought so too — that’s why they stopped pretending when they realized “No, they aren’t going to rise up against us. Well, fuck… NO CONSEQUENCES PARTY!!!!”
Because machine politics works.
The people running Maui better start explaining their actions. This looks like some Lex Luther / Bond villain level of evil.
https://www.brighteon.com/cdeed584-33b9-4a7a-b3b9-0062f8fc363a
The people running Maui better start explaining their actions.
“Well, we only meant to burn them out, we didn’t mean to kill them all!”
They will explain nothing. The media will play goalie for the left. And they will get away with government mismanagement killing over 1000 people (wait till we get the final count)…
Yeah, 1,300 still unaccounted for and only a fraction of the burn area has been searched. The death toll is going to be much larger. Not sure how much play it will get in the media, though.
10 dead children is a tragedy…. 1000+ is a statistic. Unfortunate, but that’s my instinct here.
“No comment”
They’ll just announce the final numbers on the same day AZ indicts Trump. Then it’ll be all “Trump, Trump, Trump” by the media.
And even the victims’ families will continue to vote for more of the same.
That’s too unbelievable.
Reserving judgement?
Speaking of gun whoopsies:
https://variety.com/2023/film/news/alec-baldwin-rust-charged-trigger-pulled-1235697194/
If your Hollywood news isn’t from Variety, is it really Hollywood news?
This was only difficult to comprehend for idiots that believe assault rifles – what AR means, according to them – are a real thing.
Sure they’re a thing. I was out shooting my assault rifle last night. Also trying to tempt my friends into buying rifle silencers.
Did Jesse Jackson get a lifetime grifter award? Nobody was better at racial shakedowns.
Sharpton is giving him a run for his money.
That distinction still will go to white democrats. Nobody has grifted as much off fake racism like the honkeys pretending to get the vapors about raciss America..
Sharpton was always a bit too clownish to pull off the really big grifts like Jackson.
Reply Options:
1) Banjos must be busy with the kids….
2) Detecting a bit of a theme here…
3) Fuck you, asshole.
Morning anyway, Sloopy.
Pace yourself. You’ll get carpal tunnel.
And go blind.
“I’ll stop as soon as I need glasses.”
…Stevie Wonder
I honestly couldn’t think of anything better to write. And I got started late this morning.
Sometimes inchoate rage is the only proper response.
This seems kind of sketchy. I’m no fan of the government prying into private business, but this probably warrants a looksie.
I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that all that land just happens to surround an air force base.
Another Disney park?
Assume the worst, and then wait ten to twenty years for the crime and corruption to come to light.
Repeat.
Travis is the primary air mobility hub for the west coast and Dover is the main east coast hub. TAFB flies C-5s, C-17’s, and tankers. Both sit near major rail lines and ports. If you can shut down the base to put a major crimp into flying stuff out of the US.
Good morning! Todays the day we drive the youngest kid to college. About half way there.
Safe trip bro… And don’t cry too much about that cost. Hopefully the kid is actually studying something that allows them to earn well enough to warrant the ridiculous cost of the experience.
She’s studying accounting for now. Hopefully she stays in the business department. But the cost isn’t bad, her birth mom is a disabled vet so the state pays her tuition. She took out 5k in loans for the year. We did pay $600 for one semester of books.
Most important thing young people going to college should know is that you should do your best to get your money’s worth from the experience (learn as much as you can to develop a skillset that helps YOU make money). The second is that you better make enough money that whatever you have to pay back is not a life crushing problem that will never go away.
Sounds like your kid is in a good enough place where the income issue won’t be a problem and the debt won’t be onerously insane, so that is a big boon.
My sister-in-law is a CPA, and she makes more than he does as a Marine Corps E-9 Sgt Major.
They are living off of his pay and banking hers so when he retires, they can buy a house in cash.
Are you livin’ on a prayer?
Heh… glad I read down before hitting Reply. 😉 You speak for us all, WTF.
That’s fantastic. Safe travels, friend!
Congrats, TOK.
Given the DAs and their complete disinterest in prosecution even if the mall security or cops actually did their jobs — that’s pretty much what it would take at this point.
I know I keep harping on it… but I really can’t see any way for this to resolve when you’re at “The government has a monopoly on force to keep civil order. If the government ceases to honor its side of the contract, the communities will have to resume using force for their own protection and survival — at which point they will reasonably ask what the existing government is for.”
Or everyone will leave and we can just hope not enough congregate with their stupid ideas intact to spread this further (Ha!)
What would keep these shop owners from not seeing anything? And to assume it was a shopper or perhaps even one of the looters who pulled the trigger?
“I’m sorry, officer. I was so scared I didn’t see who shot that looter. I wouldn’t even be able to give a description. Best of luck with your investigation.”
Repeat the process a couple dozen times and see what happens.
“And our camera system had a failure at that moment.” Works for the government.
Exactly. I doubt the cops would press the issue too hard. And it ain’t like one of the looters is gonna turn over their phone video, since it would implicate them.
It might be the only realistic way this gets slowed down.
“ since it would implicate them.”
You are far too optimistic. Their crimes would be ignored (“argle-bangle Economic Justice!”) and the book would be thrown at the owner.
Kinda like what happened to Kyle Rittenhouse.
Rittenhouse had a good judge and jury. These shopkeepers? Who knows that they’ll have in such a scenario.
Or Daniel Penny.
ask what the existing government is for
Detecting and punishing your micro-aggressions you cis-racist-white-supremacist.
Non-interest or lack of interest. ‘Disinterest’ is the condition of being impartial.
Correction noted. Thanks.
Now do “bemused.”
Under assault by Muses.
Like so?
Maybe like this – more Sloopy-esque, I think.
They remind me of Mary’s Danish.
I don’t think I’ve ever used ‘bemused’ in the wild. I should start.
I’ve used it in literary compositions, usually in reference to facial expressions.
I’ve also apparently been using it in the incorrect vernacular manner.
Isn’t it amazing? Government fails at all levels. Now do big city crime.
They just blame climate change or racist citizenry when they fail these days..
Mornin’. Pouring rain here in southern NH.
The task force will include multiple Southern California law enforcement agencies, including the Los Angeles Police Department and the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department, as well as the U.S. Marshals Apprehension Task Force and Federal Bureau of Investigation Apprehension Task Force, the LA Mayor’s Office said.
TOP.MEN.
I expect nothing to come of it.
The new analysis from Anderson Economic Group, an economic consulting firm, breaks down the potential losses at each automaker, with Ford Motor set to lose $1.49 billion, General Motor $1.466 billion, and Jeep-maker Stellantis $1.183 billion.
New auto manufacturers’ bailout inbound?
Funny how the Feds are telling several sectors of the economy what and how much they’ll produce, subsidizing them as needed and punishing them if they step out of line, controlling media and disseminating propaganda….
But the “extreme MAGA right-wing argleblargle” are the fascists.
(“Projection! It isn’t just for theaters anymore!)
When was the last time centrally planned economies actually worked as intended?
Disney World
So pedo paradises?
Tom SawyerEpstein IslandDepends on what the intent actually is.
If you believe them when they say they want “An economy that works for everybody”, then it is a failure.
On the other hand, if you believe their goal is to control us and make us less independent, then it looks like a success.
“Detroit auto workers strike would cost US economy nearly $6 BILLION in just 10 days, study predicts as union prepares to vote on work stoppage”
$6 billion in 10 days works out to $219 billion per year. Is that real?
maybe, kinda, yes and no
16M cars in a good year
$50k each for easy math
$800B
by “economy” I read GDP….Y=….
so that’s the revenue rate, and total revenues for them is total incomes for someone; doesn’t count productivity lost where the vehicles would have been used
but: deferred production is not lost production; the total units demanded and the total units produced are always in flux for most goods; indeed, pent-up demand for vehicles is probably in the millions, so, no telling when they can get around to building them, so, yes: a hit
worth noting: these kinds of frictions can lead to real losses and are exactly why the government should never meddle in markets by enforcing things like virus kabuki that destroys the good price signals the markets need to perform efficiently
Good morning, Sloop!
Instead of taking his passport, how about just putting the fucker in prison?
I’m no fan of the government prying into private business, but this probably warrants a looksie.
China. But I’m sure it’s no big deal.
Enjoy them both.
The Jam never sound dated. What an amazing trio.
Have a great day, peeps!
“Instead of taking his passport, how about just putting the fucker in prison?”
He resigned for health reasons. He might want to be in prison to help preserve what health he has left.
My father in law has a new Chevy Colorado on order. He said last night that it’s currently scheduled to be built the day before the UAW is talking about going on strike. Imagine the POS that thing would be.
I mean, it’s already a Chevy…
Hey now! I just hit 488888 on my ’03… some Chevy’s were built alright.
😛
5.3 Vortec?
Nope, 3.8L V-6 non-turbo (that was in later years). FWD, transverse mounted.
If one can believe Wikipedia — apparently the LA1 series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_60%C2%B0_V6_engine
They’d had some issues with the 2000-2002 series (gaskets, iirc) but worked them out by ’03 with the exception of an intake manifold recall. Been a solid car all around, honestly.
Well, maybe not exactly… it talks about the LA1 all being the 3.4L (which is the non-SS engine for that year). But the 3.8L sure looks so close I can’t imagine it is that far off engine family wise…. :shrug:
That’s impressive.
My ’01 Dodge 2500 is up to 358,000.
The rate I drive it now, it’ll be 10 years before I hit that much.
I had a 2003 Tahoe that I would still have if the fucking salt hadn’t eaten it away.
Absolutely bulletproof vehicle.
Salt is a crime against humanity worse than the NFL preseason.
I had a 2000 Ram 2500 that I had to get rid of because it had terminal cancer from the salt.
My wife said I was in a bad relationship with that truck because of all the effort, time, and money I put into it before I finally threw in the towel and traded it for the one I have now.
Nonsense. I moved from a salt area to a sand area. Sand does jack shit.
Lol. I actually really like my 2006 GMC work truck. Very basic transportation, but only 97k miles and I picked it up for less than $5000 four years ago. It’s the regular cab, 2wd, long box,V6 version.
Or at least charge them with terrorism. WTF else is it?
The goal is the collapse of the existing social structure, so nothing that prevents that will be allowed. As I repeatedly have told people: team blue has criminalized and prosecutes bad thoughts and anyone daring to defend themselves, while completely ignoring real crimes and criminals, and it is by design.
“no one attempted to activate Maui’s 80-alarm all-hazard outdoor siren system”
Here in the south, sirens are made to alert people outdoors for an approaching tornado. You can’t hear them inside unless you are near one. If I was there on vacation and heard the siren I would have thought tsunami or incoming missle. If you have a siren system designed for multiple hazards, no one is going to know what to do when they are activated.
I would say you just assume the government fucked up something and you are about to pay for it..
But the natural reaction when you hear one would be to go outside and see what all the fuss is about. The wall of flames headed your way would probably be a good indication that you need to get the fuck out of dodge.
^^^THIS^^^
The exception is when you are dealing with proggies… Their reaction might just end up being to stop and post to whatever social media they are on how climate change is behind the inferno heading their way…
Quick selfie of me with that wall of flames backdrop!!
If you hear the siren which you might not if you’re inside. If I smell smoke my first reaction is “someone’s burning something” and not a wildfire. Maybe this means I’ll be the first to die in a disaster. 🤔
I don’t know if Hawaii has this ability but here in Tennessee local emergency managers can activate the EAS and alert cell phones with a Civil Emergency Message or some other notification. Don’t know if they did something like this or not. This siren issue seems to me to be finger pointing over not doing something, even though that something probably wasn’t the best option to do in the first place. Admittedly I haven’t read much beyond the article above.
If I smell smoke, I think the same thing. If I smell smoke and the alarms are blaring, I’m going to find out what the fuck is going on ASAP.
Read this, it will explain it. The system was always meant as an all-hazard warning system. Any excuses for not using it are BS.
https://www.mauisirens.com/
This was my thought. If a warning siren goes off, my first thought is “well, I live on a volcano, thats probably it.” Tsunami would be a close 2nd. So, I would go outside and check to see if I need to run uphill or downhill.
Oh, look, fire, lets go away from that!
The first thing they will do is check their phones or turn on the TV or radio to find out why the sirens are going. Which, by the way, is exactly what everybody is told to do when they hear them.
Good info above. I’m not a fan of sirens regardless of the disaster. Getting people to do what you want them to do in an emergency seems to be like herding cats. Sure you’ll get a few of them but there will be ones that aren’t aware and didn’t take it upon themselves to find out what’s going on. At least they aren’t blaming climate change…yet.
The siren/loudspeakers in my area also send voice messages. I don’t know about Hawaii.
Two links that aren’t going to surprise anyone around here… but piss me off, so I’m sharing. (See option 3 in the dialogue menu above, I guess…):
Fuck the USDA. (Sloopy, feel free to continue your jerking motions)
Fuck the IC and the DC Establishment and their fucking bootlicking lackeys. Salt. The. Fucking. Earth. I know MTG can be a loon at times — but she’s apparently on track with this one, and I wish all the GOP Committees in the House would look at all this shit and put out a statement of “Given the rampant and probably criminal and unconstitutional methods, processes and events we’ve witnessed over the last several years — the House GOP is taking the stance that no government agency deserves funding by default at this time until our Weaponization of Government Committee concludes its investigation. If you seek funding, you must coordinate a meeting and justify your expenses and mission to this House.”
Never going to happen, too many willing to roll over… but the kangaroo courts and the gulag-like treatment is just fucking infuriating.
Two years behind bars and their trials aren’t even scheduled. But they’re gonna fast-track the Trump federal case in the same fucking venue and hold it in less than six months.
Their actions are unconscionable. And in a just world, there would be a run on lumber and rope in the DMV.
I can not disagree nor argue with anything you’ve said. Fucking infuriating.
Yep, and if they can railroad $omeone like Trump what chance have we got?
Zero to zilch.
We’ve known about this since, what, February 2021? The Dems cheer it on. The establishment GOP doesn’t give a shit.
The only people raising a stink are Trumpalos, both pols and various reporters. Therefore, nothing happens.
This is the U.S. today.
Local NPR this morning:
Springfield MA is having more murders this year than in the previous 20. Obviously the Public Safety department is springing into action with lightning-fast reflexes!
They are:
-Enacting common sense gun safety measures
-Cracking down on illegal gunz. Probably from Indiana, but they didn’t say.
-Making membership in community centers universal!
-Letting schools stay open later!
And also the police are making excellent progress in solving these murders. In fact out of the two dozen incidents (well, unless there were more since the preparation of the news report) the popo have made arrests in eight of them!
If people knew there was a 2/3 chance they’d get away with murder, there’d be a lot more dead politicians.
Don’t be silly, the police would put effort into investigating the death of someone they mistook for Important.
They forgot midnight basketball.
Today would have been the 70th birthday of the world’s best worst actor, Patrick Swayze.
/dons Nixon mask, robs bank
Holy crap… Swayze would have been 70?!?
Soon on the NY Post.. Winona Ryder seen with her stylish walker pocketing items on Rodeo Drive…. Emmanuel Lewis pitching reverse mortgages on MeTV…..
That just makes me feel old. (4X doubtless thinks “Get used to it, kids!” 😉 )
Friday Funbags to the rescue!
https://archive.is/iT3ZL
Just a quick reminder that tomorrow is the last day you can register for GlibsCruise October 2024 at the current guaranteed rates (you can still register after that, but rates tend to climb the closer you get to sailing).
Signing up doesn’t mean you’re locked into the cruise. If something goes sideways, you can cancel right up to July 2024.
Online registration and other information here. Suzanne can also get you additional discounts if you’re a veteran, etc.
(At this point, I can neither confirm nor deny that I’ll be giving impressions of the mating call of the Blue-Tongued Mango Frog. But there’s always a chance.)
So we registered in case the kids screw up their responsibilities of gaining a passport for their Japan trip. Don’t do that, mom and dad are going to spend it on things we want to do.
I can’t believe I’m actually thinking about signing up…
On the story (and there are a few others like it out there) about mysterious buy-ups of property around bases: my base assumption has NOT been nefarious foreigners, but Pelosi-types. That is, the connected families of Congresscritters who will make bank when they order some federal buy-up of the property (security, noise, expansion, environmental).
So, plain old Congress grift.
They going to start some tattoo parlor and strip club franchises?
Don’t forget the pawn shops.
Ah yes – where you can buy back your helmet that went missing.
There is only one true thief in the Marine Corps, everyone else is just trying to get their stuff back.
“They going to start some tattoo parlor and strip club franchises?”
You forgot the massage parlors and car dealerships.
That was my first thought too.
When the story quietly goes away, you know this is the answer.
I suppose I should also acknowledge that foreign agents and DC crime families could very well be partnering in the whole thing. They’re on the same side in this war and we’re the enemy.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Some good news on occasion. Thanks, Jimbo
Wonderful.
“More than 20,000 Canadians are ordered to leave their homes NOW as ‘out of control’ wildfires advance and threaten to cut off access to the only highway out of affected city”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12420067/More-20-000-Canadians-ordered-leave-homes-control-wildfires-advance-city-properties-destroyed.html
This, Hawaii, California, etc. they’ll just blame climate change nothing will get done.
Minnesoda providing the best help for Maui
My kids and I love musubi and make it at home. Mrs. Holiness thinks it is a waste of rice and nori.
Am I the only one that hates SPAM?
My wife loves it and she taught our kids to eat it.
It’s disgusting.
It used to be good. Then they cut the salt content of the recipe.
Too salty, also bullshit Spam, AKA Treet, is better.
I used to work with a gal who greu up in Austin (where they make it) and she couldn’t stand Spam. She claims the meat packing plant where they make it smells just like an open can of Spam.
Personally, I love it. Musubi or just about any other way.
I love it. I’m having Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam,, Spam, Spam, baked beans, Spam, Spam, Spam and Spam.
https://vimeo.com/329001211
Haven’t had it since I was a kid, and my Mom would occasionally get it and fry slices for breakfast or to make sandwiches. We didn’t love it, but I don’t remember it being gross or anything.
Mmmm… Grilled Spam and Cheese sandwiches.
Shame about Hormell ruining the formula
Spam on a stick over an open fire. Growing up, I worked with my dad in the woods. I miss the old days.
That’s a favorite gas-station treat of an old buddy of mine who served in the Marines. He was stationed there and got addicted to them.
Now how about someone send some sriracha to Minnesoda?
So… The town where the factory was set up in California hates the Sriracha sauce and has done many things to restrict their ability to grow peppers and process. The smell offends the sensitive liberal noses. Naturally that wouldn’t have anything to do with it, would it?
As soon as you open your car door on Avery Island, La, it smells like you are inside a Tabasco bottle. It’s glorious.
Irwindale’s city board members are notoriously corrupt.
“some experts point to climate change”
Oh, fuck off.
Name and shame them, because they’ve given up their credibility with that.
Ill sell you some. I have a good stock of Sriracha in my house. The local plant in California was hammered by Covid, which I am guessing this isn’t going to talk about instead blame climate change.
Every other hot sauce somehow has its supply chain to chili peppers
I thought Sriracha was vertically integrated.
On our way back to Memphis from getting married in Korea, we stayed a few days in Chicago. We found some little shop that had bottles of Sambal Oelek on the table and my wife LOVED it. She made us eat at that shop for lunch every day.
Couldn’t find it anywhere back in Memphis, so – being the hopeless romantic that I am – I called the shop we ate at and talked them into sending me a couple bottles of it (this was back in the early ’90s there was no e-commerce). Definitely didn’t get coal in my stocking that year.
When sriracha came out, my wife liked it better (because it had garlic, which is like catnip to Koreans), so we switched.
I think we are pretty well stocked with sriracha now, but if we ran out we could switch to sambal oelek pretty easily.
Sambal oelek, gochujang, sriracha…I can move between the three easily. We would be good friends holiness!
Hold on there hoss!
Mrs. Holiness and the kids all like hot sauces on everything. I, as a True Minnesodan, am just fine with this level of spiciness
That shit is from New York City???
I found I didn’t like the flavor of gochujang. Not enough to get vitriolic about it, but the bottle in my fridge is probably old enough to throw away.
F-16s going to the Ukraine.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-approves-sending-f-16s-ukraine-denmark-netherlands-2023-08-17/
It’s a game changer!!!
But seriously, they’ll all be smoking ruins inside of a month of arrival.
First they have to train them, then they have to maintain them. Russia has lots of ground to air manpads as well.
It’s also relatively old tech and the Russians have a lot of frontline fighters that are more modern with pilots that are well trained and, now, experienced.
And I would hope its just the airframe not the avionics packages…cause you know, that is where the real magic happens.
If it’s like the Abrams we’re sending, it’ll be 1980’s vintage avionics. The Ukes pilots won’t even know they are being targeted.
I think the current administration and Pentagon chiefs will be stupid enough to give our latest and greatest. In the name of Democracy Inc!
Doesn’t matter.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/08/11/f-16-fighters-ukraine-training-delays/
Which gives us all the information we need on how long they want this war to go on for. Damn the Ukranian people, damn the Russian people…
I’ve long been curious to see how F-16s do vs. the S-400 system. Might find out one of these days.
https://www.wideopencountry.com/fargo-season-5-premiere-date/
Huh.
Had no idea they were still making that show. For some reason I could never get past the first episode, just didn’t appeal even though I usually love this kind of stuff.
Liked the first two seasons. The second two were meh.
“Single Mormon mom who earns $45K-A-MONTH as an OnlyFans ‘mistress’ is officially EXCOMMUNICATED from the church after she violated ‘religious laws’ by refusing to stop racy content”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12417605/Mormon-mom-OnlyFans-mistress-EXCOMMUNICATED-church-racy-content.html
More marketing bullshit from OnlyFans?
Teeth are a little funny but I’d still be happy to let her see my magical underwear.
That’s some sweet mormon right there..
I love the “I am an outcast!” angle. What did you think would happen?
The mom-of-four noted that her local bishop was made aware of her account after a fellow churchgoer ‘outed’ her.
I think it was a jealous woman that outed her.
In the article Common Tater linked, there is a link to another Daily Fail article about the OF woman. She is a widow. Her husband died in 2017. She claims her husband would have supported her in this endeavor. Sure. Anything you say. Also, one of her kids knows what she is doing. Oh boy. And for the kicker, in that older article she claims OnlyFans isn’t porn because the men think they are having a relationship with the woman.
At least she’s easy on the eyes.
Her husband died in 2017. She claims her husband would have supported her in this endeavor.
What do her sister-wives think?
‘God supports me; I am celebrating the body he created in a tactful and classy way, Holly said.
Did he create those big implants?
He created the doctor and blessed him with the skills to provide, so…yes.
And gave us free will to make all kinds of bad decisions.
Despite its land grab, Flannery Associates has never made public what it intends to do with 52,000 acres of Solano County — an empire that is nearly double the size of the city of San Francisco. In the suit, Flannery only details the ways in which it won’t alter the land: It claims it told landowners that they could keep “existing income streams from wind energy and natural gas storage,” could “continue using these properties rent-free for decades,” and would receive “significant grants from Flannery for charitable giving, to be used at the [landowners’] discretion to support local schools and other non-profits.”
Terrifying.
“We shall construct New San Francisco sand this time we will do Socialism RIGHT!”
You misspelled suspicious.
Who pays shittons above market rate then promises they won’t expell the residents or take over the income streams from the property plus additional payouts?
If there was an obvious profit motive or even an eccentric conservationist motive, or really any obvious reason for such actions, it wouldn’t be raising enough red flags to hold a mayday parade for Mao.
The Jam live: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YC0_NyIxw7A
(Old Grey Whistle Test is great; Top of the Pops was mimed crap)
“When they requested a hearing and gained access to their files, they were shocked to learn the motive for their rejection, explicitly laid out in the state workers’ own words.
The authors of the file called them “lovely people” but said they wouldn’t be “affirming to a child who identified as LGBTQIA.”
It mentioned their devout Catholic faith, involvement in local churches as musicians and decided, “Their faith is not supportive and neither are they.”
https://nypost.com/2023/08/18/trans-zealots-would-rather-children-stay-in-care-than-be-fostered/
It takes a village idiot.
“This is only a test. If this had been a real emergency, this warning signal would have been followed by panicked screaming and the sounds of people fleeing the radio station.”
RRRRHHHHHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
I’m no fan of the government prying into private business, but this probably warrants a looksie.
I remember when we were in a stupid dither because the Japanese were buying all our land. Then we were in a stupid dither because the Chinese were buying all our land.
What are they going to do, take it with them? This seems ideal, they give us money and all the land is still here. So no, no “looksie” needed at all.
They’re going to use it as an economic weapon, and as a base for espionage.
Neither corporations, governments, nor foreign citizens should hold any land.
If the Japan analogy holds, they’e going to sell it back to us at a loss.
Think asymmetrical warfare, which is the CCP’s military key strategy in any conflict with the US right now. If you buy some land near key US military facilities (like where key long range aircraft – bombers/tankers/recon/MPA – or such are staged from), doing commando raids against those facilities before hostilities becomes much easier to stage & accomplish. Shit, you can disable the entire B-2 fleet of aircraft with a 50cal sniper rifle by shooting them in the engines from a mile away as they taxi out. Then crash & burn…
Some 20 or 30 $5 dollar pieces of ammunition killed $60 billion of aircraft. Note that the same tactic can be used against Joe Biden’s F-15s sent out to attack all the people the corruptocracy labels as domestic terrorists.
I count that under Espionage, as it’s a form of sabotage.
Are you worried about them polluting our precious essence?
I think this clip from South Park sums it up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnP_mZAv8gE
I think the term used – coined by Eddie Murphy – was rice dicks…
Yeah, only Lenape, Cherokee, Iroquois, Cree, Lakota, Comanche, etc. tribes should have land titles.
They lost the war. And Tribes count as governments.
No Communal Ownership!
You don’t see something of a difference between ’80s Japan and today’s China?
In terms of our irrational panic? No.
The Chinese have better food, though.
*tries to consider the truth-value of that statement as it applies to vegetarian fare*
*decides it’s irrelevant since Indian is better than either*
In all cases from the authentic to the Americanized, Japanese food is better than Chinese.
I have yet to find Indian food that is even edible, but I am willing to stipulate that my survey has been limited in scope to potlucks and storebought premade material, so there exists the possibility of something agreeable.
It’s irrelevant because meat.
1) One has a slightly bigger army
2) One has nuclear ICBMs and the other had two fission bombs used on them
3) The Japanese make better cars and motorcycles
4) The Triads sound more sinister than the Yakuza
Paying above market prices to buy empty land around a military base is pretty strange, and should definitely be looked into. Nobody even knows if the Chinese are behind it or not, it’s just one of the theories.
I cannot wait to get away from my management. We are what, 400 miles inland from Baja California? Upper management is wanting us to do storm prep for the storm. We can have violent t-storms from monsoons and we don’t do anything, but a storm in Baja? PANIC! I cannot wait for my exit interview.
Kyiv wants U.S.-made fighter jets as fast as possible, but the first pilots to undergo training probably won’t be ready to fly them until next summer
Hat in the Ring Squadron, ready for action!
Oh, no. It might rain in California.
Queue storms are worse and mudslides are proof of climate change headlines in 4..3..2..1..
California is watching Maui with great interest on how to buy up land on the cheap
Picked up 3.5 cases of ammo from my friendly FFL. And had a chat about WTF is happening next month.
For those of you who don’t know, NY is implementing a new set of 2A restrictions 9/13. There will need to be ammo and firearm background checks. For those of you who don’t live here, it’s no longer good enough for you to fill out a 4473 and submit to NICS. No, now the NY State Police will have to take your 4473 and run it through NICS instead of the FFL. And charge you $9 for their trouble.
My FFL still has not received any instructions as to how this is actually supposed to work, there is as of yet no interface between the FFL and NYSP.
Is this covered under any of the suits that are in flight, or will a new one be needed?
When do they set up the border checkpoint at vermont for people going across state lines to buy ammo?
Why would they need a border checkpoint? They’ll set up a license plate reader at VT gun shops.
Who said anything about stopping at Vermont? It’s just the first border I come to headed east. My last ammo purchase, I was practically in Maine.
IIRC, NYSP has sent officers to nearby gun shows to take the license plates of NY registered cars. And of course, that’s probable cause for a search warrant.
Sorry to hear it. I can just walk into Academy Sports, or almost anywhere else and buy ammo at the front counter with cash. No questions asked.
The State of New York is at war with its residents’ rights.
So, thuggish behavior is par for the course.
They already banned shipping ammo. Fortunately there’s an FFL in one of my clubs willing to accept and transfer ammo for free as a fuck you to the state.
I’m planning on buying him an expensive bottle of Scotch for Christmas.
NYT is asking why Hawaii is scrutinizing Hawaiian Electric after the big fire.
The answer rhymes with “rockets”.
Sockets?
Climate change?
Hawaiian Electric Knew of Wildfire Threat, but Waited Years to Act
Those pictures are horrific.
You would think a high priority would be to not burn down the island, but I guess pretending to do something about climate change is important too.
Crocketts?
and Tubbses.
Spacely Sprockets
Deep pockets?
It’s not just Mustangs. They are just cheaper.
Gliwice, Poland. Someone couldn’t handle the power. Another M5 comp crashed…
What’s the difference between a BMW and porcupine?
Porcupines weren’t ruined by Chris Bangle?
Porcupines use turn signals?
If you want a porcupine without iDrive, you can get one?
A porcupine has the prick on the outside.
Did you really expect us to parrot the old joke?
Nope. Was hoping for some variety.
Meanwhile, in the Adirondacks
Smith lives in Saranac Lake, New York, another small town nestled inside the park’s vast boundaries, that now draws much of its vitality from outdoor recreation and tourism.
She said environmentalists like herself had to learn to balance their ambitious goals for the park’s wild lands with the needs of communities. That meant compromise and patience.
“I’ve been on the ledge,” Smith said, describing moments when sometimes it felt like the effort at finding common ground “is too difficult, this relationship is broken, this issue is too hard to face.”
People here say this work has been complicated by national forces tearing at America’s civil society.
The park’s small towns backed Donald Trump twice. Voters here have also given landslide victories to Congresswoman Elise Stefanik — a Trump ally who frequently amplifies conspiracy theories.
In other parts of the U.S., bitter divisions have shattered communities. But here many local government leaders like Gerry Delaney, who describes himself a Trump voter, have chosen to keep talking and negotiating.
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Former Gov. Pataki, the man widely credited with starting this process, says he believes that’s still possible but only with the kind of hard work of rebuilding trust that’s happened here.
“I still think the majority of the American people want practical solutions as opposed to partisan or ideological solutions,” Pataki said.
“But that’s not what the media is feeding us, that’s not what our political leadership is giving us and I think that has tragic consequences for the country.”
NPR story about decades long battle over land use in Adirondack Park. Naturally, they swoon over the “compromises” made to protect the pristine environment. Don’t get me wrong. I’m all in favor of rational compromise.
They make their obligatory slams about “Trump allies” but they never mention Governess Hokum, that well known agent of compromise. Read the whole thing. It sounds to me like a backhanded challenge to the radical environmentalist fringe to come in and stir things up before t’s too late.
The solution is to shoot the environmentalists, dissolve the park, and let the landowners use their land as they see fit.
The “compromise” was — environmentalists get everything they want in exchange for increased tax dollars being spent in the area.
This is the insurmountable mental barrier here — everyone, even conservatives, believes that the entire purpose of government is to spend money, and therefore the candidate that will spend more on you is the one you should vote for.
I blame Tammany Hall.
^Here is the valid point. And how dare they push back.
Same shit the left always pulls.
Attempt radical new normal, act surprised when actual normal pushes back.
I picked up a second transcription gig (which is why I’m up before the crack of noon), and the business owners are a PITA. They prefer to communicate BY PHONE. As in, talking. Using their lips and voice boxes. And they do it a lot.
Anyway, learning any new system and new doctors is a headache, but I have had a real headache for the last 2 days (unrelated, I think), and I take a shit-ton of painkillers every morning, so the headache pain is getting through all that Tylenol and ibuprofen (yes together) (yes I had an ulcer and am not supposed to be taking ibuprofen).
THEN my neighbor decided to have his trees trimmed this morning right when I was to start work. My office windows are about 20 feet away from where they are working, so I have chainsaws right in my ears while I’m trying to listen to foreign ESL doctors rattle off US military bases with funny names.
/whine
Carry on while I remember to be grateful I have jobs.
Congrats on the Coding grade.
Indeed. Can we now say you are going to earn…
Mo Money?
*Ducks
Thank you!
“Carry on while I remember to be grateful I have jobs.”
You can do OnlyFans, if you just don’t tell [[[anyone]]]
Rule 34 for me (see: Tres Cool). I could clean up. But I won’t because that’s just gross.
What’s the difference between a BMW and porcupine?
Porcupines are functional? And better looking than a (modern) BMW?
I already mentioned Bangle.
I think an E46 M3 s the last time I really wanted a BMW product.
The “compromise” was — environmentalists get everything they want in exchange for increased tax dollars being spent in the area.
Very good. You win a cookie.
“We have to come together and find … a path forward that everyone can accept,” Delaney said.
In the end, local government leaders wound up supporting most of the big land conservation deals first proposed by Pataki.
In exchange, small towns in the Adirondacks received big pots of economic development money, funding for infrastructure, and some environmental rules were eased.
Something tells me not all palms were greased equally. I remember some of that stuff from when I was in high school. Tragic desecration of pristine paradise, et c.
Four years ago, the utility said it needed to do more to prevent its power lines from emitting sparks. It made little progress, focusing on a shift to clean energy.
“Once everything is powered by windmills, we can just tear all those ugly power lines down!”
I think an E46 M3 s the last time I really wanted a BMW product.
Didn’t they make a half hearted attempt to revive the “3.0” designation right around that time? It was a good looking coupe, but I had no interest in swapping my 2002 for one.
Speaking of cars, DeForest Kelley’s ’68 Thunderbird is for sale. Cheap.
https://www.theautopian.com/the-ford-thunderbird-owned-by-the-actor-who-played-dr-mccoy-on-star-trek-is-a-strangely-affordable-classic/
I don’t remember. Of all the M3 I’d want an E30 first, followed by an E36.
When I was younger I had an E30 318i. Slow as molasses. Still fun.
Euphemism of the day
An Auto-Parts Retailer Crashed—It Can Be Fixed
The stock chart is awful. Naturally the current CEO will reap a windfall.
You would think a high priority would be to not burn down the island, but I guess pretending to do something about climate change is important too.
For some reason, people seem to worry less about real, verifiable (but familiar) threats than imaginary but highly emotionalized ones.
Killing a thousand people is no big deal when you need to worry about the whole fucking planet.
Old Man With Candy
“The Chinese have better food, though.”
You are a crazy old man
He’s a vegetarian, so he might be right within that narrow scope.
I think, in a rather sudden fashion, my yearly ragweed allergy just kicked in. Not gradual or nothing, literally nothing 2 hours ago, one huge sneeze and then runny nose
As always I started taking Claritin but am never sure it does anything
In my experience the only thing that’s ever worked is Flonase spray.
Yes. The 24 hour nasal steroids are awesome!
Xyxal works better. Takes a few days to really kick in. At least it works better with my body chemistry.
I thing xyzal is the one to take at night as it might make you sleepy.
I do not know if you have ragweed in the US but here is a major source of allergies.
I still think it is unfair for me to have it. I did not have any allergies for many years. that should mean I am free. But suddenly a few of years I got his ragweed shit.
Yes, in Texas we have every allergy known to man. I stay on Xyxal almost year round. And allergies definitely change throughout your lifetime.
come-on, man: mountain cedar, more south of you, but that’s it
ragweed, corn, mold: I’m back in the Old South and 30% stopped up 70% of the time
but 20 years in north Texas was a dream: cross timbers, desert, and prairie, no humidity
Claritin is terrible.
Allegra and Zrtec are better.
Flonase nasal spray is essential.
“Ragweeds are flowering plants in the genus Ambrosia in the aster family, Asteraceae. They are distributed in the tropical and subtropical regions of the Americas, especially North America,[2] where the origin and center of diversity of the genus are in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico.[3] Several species have been introduced to the Old World and some have naturalized and have become invasive species.[2] Ragweed species are expected to continue spreading across Europe in the near future in response to ongoing climate change.[4] ”
Alright WHO THE FUCK introduced it to the Old World? I hope the bastard rots in hell.
“in response to ongoing climate change”
Oh, fuck off.
Holy fuck they are really gonna do it!
NYC Kicks Off Plan to Rezone Midtown, Turn Offices Into Housing
Good luck, clowns!
Who was pointing how how incredibly hard it is to convert office construction to residential? All the mechanicals, etc. are just wrong for it.
Me, Scruffy and a bunch of others.
Popcorn time!
Not enough shitters and sinks. It’ll be like a European hostel. And absolutely nobody will live there.
Their only real option is to create huge lofts because of the plumbing issues.
Should be entertaining
You know if you were going to house the homeless bums there anyhow, why bother with plumbing upgrades?
The bums are used to living without crappers. Just let them live their authentic lives shitting and pissing where they feel like it.
Crap out the window.
In the elevators is more fun.. Makes for cool and interesting elevator rides…
Here’s a story with some reasons why it isn’t easy
When Boy Mayor Jacob Frey was proposing conversions, some developer was quoted in the story as “it only works for luxury housing” or something like that. Meaning that the cost of converting big office buildings is so prohibitive that only richie riches can afford to buy.
If no one is working in the office / in the city… why would anyone want to live there anyway? Especially given the escalating crime, etc…
Admittedly, I’m biased as hell as I can barely stand small cities / towns. Living in NYC would be Dante’s 10th Circle as far as I’m concerned.
““Water Requires Conversations Around Equity” – Meet the Radical, Obama-Loving Official Who Delayed Life-Saving Water to Maui for SEVERAL HOURS While the Fires Were Contained (VIDEO)”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/water-requires-conversations-around-equity-meet-radical-obama/
CWAA
““Water is an earthly manifestation of a god,” he said. “That reverence for a resource, that reciprocity in relationship was something that was really, really important to our worldview and wellbeing.”
“We’ve become used to looking at water as something we use, and not necessarily something that we revere as that thing that gives us life,” he continued. “Let water connect us and not divide us. We can share it, but it requires true conversations about equity.””
https://www.thepublica.com/maui-water-official-delayed-release-of-water-waited-for-taro-farm-approval/
“EMAILS: Katie Hobbs Abused Her Power and Asked Twitter to Censor 2020 Election Tweets Days After Election and Before Stealing 2022 Election”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/emails-katie-hobbs-abused-her-power-asked-twitter/
CWAC
Slow as molasses. Still fun.
The 2002 wasn’t exactly a rocketship. Definitely fun.
That’s the only BMW I’ve ever wanted.
I almost bought one years ago.
My parents had a 1976 3.0L just like this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_New_Six#/media/File:BMW_2800_at_Schaffen-Diest_2013.JPG
Had been imported directly so, aside from the spedo card being swapped for MPH, the controls were in German.
Dual carbs, pretty damn peppy for a large 4-door, 4-speed automatic. I may or may not have hit over 120 on the Seaford-Oyster Bay Expressway.
And the decline of social norms continues.
Babies at Bars and Michelin-Star Restaurants? Not Everyone’s On Board
Most of us used to know what restaurants were and were not appropriate for young children. However, since we don’t know what a women is either this isn’t surprising.
Beach handball women Denmark vs Norway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlRcEIOdYSQ
Are those all trannies?
Don’t be a h8ter! Just Lena into the fun of it and enjoy.
Ann Cecilie Frhüstück Møll. Are you kidding me?
I mean, Ann Cecilie Frühstück Møll. Are you kidding me?
Who was pointing how how incredibly hard it is to convert office construction to residential? All the mechanicals, etc. are just wrong for it.
You could just convert every other floor to plumbing and wiring runs.
“The Victoria Police have launched an internal investigation at the force’s Frankston station after learning that male officers have been “faking” a non-binary identity in order to take advantage of a bonus clothing allowance….
Under the force’s current civilian clothing scheme, male officers can claim up to $2,554 in clothing expenses, while “non-men” and women can claim $3,674.”
https://www.thepublica.com/australia-police-pretending-to-be-non-binary-in-order-to-increase-clothing-allowance/
Non-binary is bullshit.
today in commie tweets
i did a thing
https://twitter.com/yurij_thepolpot/status/1691842796842263031
Trying to sort by body count?
another commie tier list
https://twitter.com/smizzyisbased/status/1692145811176460464
Since former PepsiCo executive Tom Greco took over in April 2016, and especially the past few years, the retailer has been notable for struggling in a hot retail category. Its shares have lagged behind rivals O’Reilly Automotive and AutoZone by 300 and 270 percentage points, respectively, and have shed more than half of their value during his tenure.
They must have a really awesome executive development process at Pepsi. Look what a great job Scully did at Apple.
To be fair, what is he supposed to do? He can’t set Michael Jackson on fire to generate buzz anymore.
Wait! That would be perfect. Get that Dylan Mulvaney spokesperson to shoot a commercial for you and then set her on fire. That would really generate some positive PR.
Holy shit. First time I’ve seen any pricing. I hope the more tame Dark Horse variants are more reasonable.
2024 Ford Mustang Dark Horse: An Audacious Display of Power
Wow.
If the exhaust volume switching is anything like in my Mustang, it doesn’t work unless the engine is at operating temperature. So no muting it when you start up to leave your house in the morning.
This woman in Munich is so angry that the parking spots on her street were replaced with a kids playground that she has started shooting a water pistol at playing children
https://twitter.com/derJamesJackson/status/1691495103611748352
She should go after the people responsible, and upgrade to a real pistol.
For those of you who don’t know, NY is implementing a new set of 2A restrictions 9/13. There will need to be ammo and firearm background checks. For those of you who don’t live here, it’s no longer good enough for you to fill out a 4473 and submit to NICS. No, now the NY State Police will have to take your 4473 and run it through NICS instead of the FFL. And charge you $9 for their trouble.
Copycatting California? And they would never, under any circumstances, keep a copy for their records.
That’s only because the database hasn’t been built yet on account of not having been able to get the funds transferred from more vibile, vote-buying projects.
Starting at $140,000, the Dark Horse R comes with an invitation to compete in the new Mustang Challenge series, similar to the Porsche Cup. Honestly, I’ve done stupider things with my money.
As I have said before, I just hope they make it into the hands of people who will drive them, and not just squirrel them away as an “investment”. Maybe the challenge series is Ford’s attempt to encourage that, but I find it highly improbable that there is anybody that smart anywhere near the top of Ford management.
Look I’d love to annoy one particular neighbor with a mostly unmuffled V8, but two other choices come to mind
https://www.porsche.com/usa/models/911/911-models/carrera-t/
Or more likely
https://www.porsche.com/usa/models/718/718-models/718-cayman-gts-4/
Or play the same game with GM for Z06 Corvette, but give up a manual transmission.
Get that Dylan Mulvaney spokesperson to shoot a commercial for you and then set her on fire.
“And then you spray this stuff right down there on the side of the motor while it’s running.”
“That sounds easy. What’s carburetor cleaner?”
Look I’d love to annoy one particular neighbor with a mostly unmuffled V8, but two other choices come to mind
The Cayman gets my vote because the motor is where it belongs.
Yes, me too unless you need the space as more of a GT car.